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Could Cenk Uygur Sue the New York Times? | Law & Crime
I read the referenced piece myself; it's a pretty cut and dry hatchet job. Pretty sad that the once laudable NYT has been reduced to featuring this sort of naked partisan propaganda, now leveraged against progressive politicos.
Colin Kalmbacher said:Liberal media mainstay The New York Times recently published a story about a progressive congressional candidate that, based on the available evidence, appears to have intentionally misrepresented the candidate’s views. Because of this apparent and alleged (by the candidate) misrepresentation, the publication and the author of that article could be subject to a false light tort claim in California.
On Friday, December 13, the Times published Jennifer Medina‘s story headlined “Bernie Sanders Retracts Endorsement of Cenk Uygur After Criticism.” The piece was largely a recitation of the online controversy that swirled after the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate endorsed–and then quickly un-endorsed–Uygur’s anti-establishment campaign to replace former congresswoman Katie Hill in California’s 25th Congressional District due to the candidate’s readily-accessible history of shock jock-style commentary and more.
One portion of that article stood out to many commentators as an egregious misrepresentation of what Uygur has said via The Young Turks show and TYT Network, which he owns and operates. Medina’s story references a confrontational interview Uygur conducted with well-known racist, conspiracy theorist, onetime Republican elected official and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke.
I read the referenced piece myself; it's a pretty cut and dry hatchet job. Pretty sad that the once laudable NYT has been reduced to featuring this sort of naked partisan propaganda, now leveraged against progressive politicos.